The Couples Expert

Hi, and welcome to The Couples Expert with your host Stuart Fensterheim. This is episode 160 of our show. Thank you for listening today as Stuart welcomes guest Jim Thomas back to the show. They will be discussing social media and some of the pitfalls of getting connected through the Internet and the impact of that on your life and relationships. Listen in as Stuart and Jim discuss this very important and timely subject. What you’ll learn on today’s podcast: Tech advances allow access for everyone, worldwide even those people in remote places 4:34 Being conscious of where you go online and how it impacts you, feeds or frustrates you can make all the difference 8:41 How we influence each other and ourselves online? 11:25 How the intensity of what we’re bombarded with reminds us how fragile we are as humans 16:15 When everything is on Facebook nothing is private! 17:42 When phones are present we lose our ability to empathize and communicate in real time by 40%  22:48 The power of balance in using devices 28:36